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Yizzi Boateng

Late last year, HTC announced the young brother of its flagship HTC one, called the one mini 2. This is an updated version of the previous one mini with many updated features. As expected, we got to spend time exploring the device to discover its pros and cons. In this …

The business model for many companies online, is the so-called “free” model. Basically, the products and services are “free”, but in exchange, the companies offering the services collect and keep users’ data. Advertising is the main source of revenue for such free business models. Even if users choose to migrate to other …

The prospects of mobile technologies in 2015 are increasingly looking marvellous. For smartphones and applications in particular, new innovations as well as new context of usage will are starting to emerge in ways that haven’t been seen or experienced before. Wearable technologies haven’t quite hit the critical mass yet, but according …

In South Africa and most sub-saharan countries, mobile phone penetration has surpassed the 100% penetration mark, and unsurprisingly, this figure is still growing exponentially. The market however is still dominated by feature phones. On one end of the spectrum, there is a niche group of sophisticated smartphone users and on …